diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index c8266a549d..6d70496393 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ External:
 
 Janitorial Clean-ups:
 
-* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead.
-  For example, most conf parsing callbacks should use it.
-
 * replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
 
 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
diff --git a/src/basic/string-util.h b/src/basic/string-util.h
index 0175803302..e99f7964be 100644
--- a/src/basic/string-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/string-util.h
@@ -107,9 +107,6 @@ const char* split(const char **state, size_t *l, const char *separator, bool quo
 #define FOREACH_WORD_SEPARATOR(word, length, s, separator, state)       \
         _FOREACH_WORD(word, length, s, separator, false, state)
 
-#define FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED(word, length, s, state)                     \
-        _FOREACH_WORD(word, length, s, WHITESPACE, true, state)
-
 #define _FOREACH_WORD(word, length, s, separator, quoted, state)        \
         for ((state) = (s), (word) = split(&(state), &(length), (separator), (quoted)); (word); (word) = split(&(state), &(length), (separator), (quoted)))
 
diff --git a/src/test/test-string-util.c b/src/test/test-string-util.c
index d0f84d70bc..e43373b0f5 100644
--- a/src/test/test-string-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-string-util.c
@@ -232,21 +232,25 @@ static void test_foreach_word(void) {
 }
 
 static void check(const char *test, char** expected, bool trailing) {
-        const char *word, *state;
-        size_t l;
-        int i = 0;
+        int i = 0, r;
 
         printf("<<<%s>>>\n", test);
-        FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED(word, l, test, state) {
-                _cleanup_free_ char *t = NULL;
+        for (;;) {
+                _cleanup_free_ char *word = NULL;
 
-                assert_se(t = strndup(word, l));
-                assert_se(strneq(expected[i++], word, l));
-                printf("<%s>\n", t);
+                r = extract_first_word(&test, &word, NULL, EXTRACT_QUOTES);
+                if (r == 0) {
+                        assert_se(!trailing);
+                        break;
+                } else if (r < 0) {
+                        assert_se(trailing);
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                assert_se(streq(word, expected[i++]));
+                printf("<%s>\n", word);
         }
-        printf("<<<%s>>>\n", state);
         assert_se(expected[i] == NULL);
-        assert_se(isempty(state) == !trailing);
 }
 
 static void test_foreach_word_quoted(void) {